The Destin Chronicles Series

In space, helping a stranger can get you killed, or worse… Armstrong Station is the busiest spaceport in the system where you can buy almost anything. Even a runaway slave. Doctor Melanie Destin left Earth, desperate to make a new life for herself. Now after finding a job as ship's surgeon aboard the interplanetary freighter, Requiem, her life is starting to look up for the first time in years. But something unexpected happens on a routine stop at Luna's Armstrong Station which threatens to upend Mel's new life and put her and her crew mates in mortal peril. When she chooses to help a runaway slave, Mel discovers that the young woman has a secret; one that will endanger anyone who encounters her. Hunted by a corrupt government official intent on silencing them, Mel must find a way to get them off Luna and away from danger, all without drawing the unwanted attention of a powerful interplanetary crime czar. Roaming across the Solar System, a reluctant and unlikely heroine sets herself against overwhelming odds, and she's not going to take crap from anyone who stands in her way. Can Mel get herself out of this mess without someone dying? Can her life ever be normal again? Will she live long enough to find out?

Mars is a nice place…when it's not trying to kill you.   Most spacefarers avoid Phobos Station. It is hard to get to and the locals would rather shoot you than be helpful.   Melanie Destin has agreed to a simple task: Identify the person who receives a container the Requiem delivers to Phobos Station.   When she learns the identity of the intended recipient, things becomes far more deadly.  As the body count rises, Mel must find a way to protect her shipmates from an old nemesis with vengeance on his mind.    Mel Destin has a knack for getting out of the trouble that finds her, but has her luck finally run out on Phobos Station?

Millions will die, and it's all her fault... Mel Destin is desperate. Try as she might, a cure for the deadly nano-virus infecting Chloe Cabot remains elusive. With time running out and assassins hunting her across the solar system, she is forced into an unholy alliance with the only person who can help — the man who murdered her childhood friend. What she seeks is hidden on Ganymede, but while searching for it, Mel makes a terrible discovery: one that could drive a wedge between her and her friends aboard Requiem. Worse still, by accessing the cure, she will unleash a more terrible fate on millions. How will Mel get herself out of this mess?

Saturn's moon, Rhea, hides many secrets…   The Vault is the most secure archive in the Solar System, or so everyone believes.  Melanie Destin desperately needs to get inside and knows someone who can help her.    But when she gains access to the facility, what she discovers should not be possible.   Something has destroyed the archive, and now it hunts her. With her ship sabotaged, Mel must survive long enough to escape Rhea with the secret she's uncovered.   If she fails, a force will be unleashed that will kill millions, and forever change the balance of power in the Solar System.   Mel Destin will need to use every trick at her disposal for any hope to get out of this one, but will it be enough?

Revenge comes at a price... In the Galilean colonies of the outer solar system, water is a resource more precious than gold. When someone begins stealing it from under the noses of the Jovian Collective, they send for their best operatives to correct the situation. Assassins for hire, Sean and Siobhan Ikiedo, are sent to shut down the pirate operation that has plagued the Europa Colony for months. Little do they realize that the man they are ordered to eliminate holds the answer to a mystery they have pursued for ten years. Someone in the Jovian Collective is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent the twins from discovering who murdered their parents, and their assignment quickly reveals itself to be a trap designed to ensnare and destroy them as well.

The Solar System's fate rests on the shoulders of one, insignificant woman... Melanie Destin has attracted the wrong kind of attention. The Jovian Collective is looking for her. They have a job that only she can do, and nobody turns them down if they know what's good for them. Carson Willis has set in motion the final steps to bring down the Collective. If he succeeds, his mysterious employer is set to become the single most powerful economic power in the solar system, and an interplanetary conflict between Terra and Mars will be all but assured. Mel's job is to stop him. But she believes his plans hide a far more nefarious objective that frightens her far more than the shadow of war; one that will place the psychopathic Willis, in control of the entire solar system. But nobody will listen to her.  Abandoned by her friends and allies, Mel is left to her own resources to stop Willis. With the clock running out, and her enemy closing in on her, she has one impossible chance to prevent a remorseless killer from becoming the most tyrannical despot in history.

All life in the solar system is about to be wiped out… Dr. Melanie Destin thought she'd started a new life on Mars. While searching for answers to her mysterious past, she becomes embroiled in political intrigue and is falsely accused of assassinating the Martian High Chancellor… On the run, with a price on her head and the authorities in close pursuit, Mel must evade capture long enough to accomplish the one task that can save her life; destroy the source of the deadly Ares nano-virus… Little does she realize the pathogen is not what it seems, and her meddling will make her the catalyst for the destruction of all life in the solar system.  

Armageddon is up for Auction... Dr. Melanie Destin's life is a mess. In a desperate attempt to start over, she accepts an interplanetary salvage job that will pay her enough to rebuild a new life on Mars. When she learns the real purpose of the mission is to recover a deadly synthetic virus, everything begins to unravel… Powerful forces compete to control the pathogen. The expedition leader plans to steal it. Planetary governments are in pursuit to recover it. The corporation that hired her wants to destroy anyone who knows of it… With her life in danger and not knowing who to trust, Mel must find a way to keep the virus out of the wrong hands. If she fails, billions will die…    

She is a Reluctant Hero Melanie Destin has been many things in her troubled life...a drug dealer, a doctor, a fugitive, and most recently, the savior of Mars...what she doesn't want to be is a mother. When circumstances make her responsible for a young orphan, she discovers the girl comes with a terrifying past...one that binds them to each other. Pursued by a ruthless government assassin, Mel must get the girl to safety before they are captured. If she fails, the secrets the child holds will make a dictator unstoppable and forever change the course of human history.  

It is a time of peace… The quiet, before the storm… War is coming, and nobody can prevent it… Following a successful rebellion against a ruthless despot, Martians struggle to rebuild their world. On Earth, the unification wars have finally ended and Terra is united under one supreme leader. But the planet is no longer capable of supporting humanity's exploding population, and covetous eyes have fallen on the newly terraformed Mars, perceived as weak and ripe for the picking. Melanie Destin, heralded as the Mother of Mars, wants to disappear. After the death of her lover, she is lost, and bereft of any desire to go on. Though she's chosen to honour her promise to be a symbol of hope for the recovering Martian populace, she longs to leave Mars forever. Fate has other plans for her. When the entire Martian governing council is assassinated, Mel is conscripted to lead the people in defence of their world from an invading Terran armada. To complicate matters, her young clone, Adrianna, now a teenager, is growing older at an accelerated rate and will die within a short time if Mel cannot find a way to stop her rapid aging. With the dark forces from her past manipulating events behind the scene, Mel must face her worst fears and confront her deadly nemesis one final time to prevent a war and determine the fate of the human race for two worlds.